Leprosy expert Dr Kok is born

Susanna Helena Kok, medical missionary of the Dutch Reformed Church and authority on leprosy, was born in Brandfort, Orange Free State (now Free State). She who worked mainly in Nigeria. While in charge of the leprosy patients there she made a major contribution to medical literature by identifying and describing an unknown skin disease which was similar to leprosy, but was not reacting to treatment as leprosy was doing, namely Mkar disease (granuloma multiforme). Sources: Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of South African Biography, v. 2. http://www.aifo.it/english/resources/online/apdrj/apdrj0106/reverseintegra-nigeria.pdf South African History Online